I watched this film, Gamera versus Guiron, on Prime, in Japanese with subtitles. It was charmingly hysterical. Two little boys team with Gamera to make the world safer (and decrease "traffic accidents.") Guiron sort of resembles a deranged "Barney." This must have filled kiddie Saturday matinees.
The plot involves two little boys who somehow find their way into outer space, traveling with, and held hostage by, two beautiful space woman who are the sole remaining members of their destroyed planet. The women are not nice. They want to eat the brains of the boys to enhance themselves. The use Guiron, which has a sharp mega blade for a knife, as a weapon.
Eventually, Gamera, described as a friend of children, flies out to help the children, and there's the requisite battle.
The film is oddly, goofily entertaining. Despite what I wrote in the first paragraph, I'm not sure it played kiddie matinees (they were dying out by 1970). I'm not sure it even had a theatrical release here. But by 1971, 1972, it was ubiquitous on TV, airing under the title, Attack of the Monsters. Enjoy some more stills from film below.
-- Doug Gibson
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